Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
-John Erskine
Quotations
Music
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
-Marty Rubin
I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
-M. S. Subbulakshmi "M. S. Subbulakshmi"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.
-Morrissey
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven "Ludwig van Beethoven"
How is it that music can without words evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
-Jane Swan
